Carroll scan results revealed

“The results show an injury to his hamstring, which is expected to keep him out of action for a month.

“Carroll’s absence means Slaven Bilic is likely to use either Enner Valencia or Nikica Jelavic in the Hammers attack for Saturday’s trip to Newcastle United.”

This morning Bilic told a press conference he thought it could be as short as three and a half weeks.

“ He’s got a scan today at 10.30am  so we are going to wait for that but It’s a hamstring injury. We are going to wait for a scan, it wasn’t like boom, the big one, it was a little one, it’s in-between. It’s a couple of hours we have to wait and see but hopefully it’s going to be three and a half weeks .”

Yesterday Hammers Head of Medical and Sports Science, Stijn Vandenbroucke said “Unfortunately Andy Carroll came off with a hamstring injury and he will have a scan on Thursday, after which we will know more about the extent of the problem. If it is a Grade One injury, he will be out for around ten days, while a Grade Two injury means four to six weeks, depending on what part of the muscle is injured. We’ll have more news tomorrow.”